From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for host aliases in config files
Message-ID: <200802202044.54987.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802191547580.30505@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrotr:
 
> I just tried this:
> 
> $ git config rewrite."master.kernel.org:/pub".url \
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/
> 
> and it worked.  IOW, the config will look like this:
> 
> [rewrite "master.kernel.org:/pub"]
>         url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/
> 
> So maybe this is easier to grasp?

Perhaps that it is easier to grasp, but imho it is backwards,
as it is inherently 1 -> 1 in <original> -> <rewritten>,
while I think it is more common to have n -> 1, i.e. multiple
URLs (aliases), multiple alternative "spellings" with one
tried way to access repository.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland